A-Z of Entries

call on Wordsworth atty 2.4.1798 / 3.4.1798 call on Wordsworth, adv Montagu / 14,4,1798 call on Worswort atty / 16.4.1798 call on Wordsworth (& Montagu) / 17.4.1798 call on Wordsworth / 5.5.1798 adv Wordsworth at (Samuel) Lister's

The above entries have all been coded to William Wordsworth on the GD website. The poet was clearly down in Somerset at this time (see Reed, Wordsworth Chronology 1770-1799) and two of the above entries add "atty" i.e. attorney, which was the profession of the poet's brother Richard. There are also two later entries that are coded to William Wordsworth…

15.7.1795 Dyson & W call. Since Godwin called on Wordsworth the previous day, this W seems very likely to have been Wordsworth

7.6.1796 sup with W at Montagu's. Since Wordsworth had already been named in full that day, this was certainly him

Benjamin Worship of Great Yarmouth articled 4.7.1757 for seven years to William Worship attorney of the same place
Benjamin Worship bach otp = St Nicholas Gt Yarmouth 25.8.1764 Elizabeth Jay sp a minor otp by license witnesses Bartholomew Jay, Sampson Winn
William Worship bapt 26.6.1767 Gt Yarmouth s of Benjamin & Elizabeth
Maria dau of Benjamin & Elizabeth Worship born 20.11.1786 bapt 30.7.1787 Newington Surrey
Mrs Elizabeth Worship of Newington buried Locks Fields 6.11.1791 age 46
Nat Arch TS 11/956/3501 report from spy Metcalfe 2.4.1794 Mr Worship of Ball…

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1779 also in 1794 version

Hugh Worthington DNB 1752-1813 a London dissenting preacher from 1774. Didn't appear in Godwin's daily diary entries dating from 1788

10.11.1795 Wrangham & Montagu call / 11.11.1795 call on Montagu adv Wrangham / 18.11.1795 at Montagu's / 13.1.1796 there / 14.5.1797 Wrangham & Montagu call /  28.5 1797 again / 4.6.1799 Godwin calls on Wranghm (not in) / 5.6.1799 again / 13.5.1800 adv at Mauman's / 15.3.1810 Godwin wrote to / 3.4.1811 Wrangham & Strickland call / 22.7.1815 Godwin wrote to / 8.6.1816 calls / 1.6.1834 calls

Francis Wrangham DNB 1769-1842. Brightwell: Memorials of A Opie p59. Seatonian prize. Married 1799 Yorkshire Agnes Creyke, she d.1800, 2ndly Dorothy Cayley 1801

Sir Cecil Wray proposed Society for Constitutional Information 29.11.1782 Edward Hall 2nded Samuel Shore

See DNB 1734-1805 also History of Parliament. His one appearance in Godwin Diary 1.4.1795 was interestingly at  the table of John King DNB c1753-1823 see my Background article King of the Swindlers

see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

Capt Henry Wray ratebooks 7 PolandSt 1788 / Henry Wray RN = 24.4.1783 St James Elizabeth Ideson / Luke Henry son of Henry & Elizabeth Wray bapt 6.2.1784 St James / Anjel dau of Henry & Elizabeth Wray bapt 1.9.1786 Westminster / will PCC 1825 Henry Wray Guernsey dated 13.12.1819 all to Angel Wray proved 30.12.1825 by Angel Wray Rosetti wife of Anthony Rosetti

Nat Arch ADM 254/223/59 Henry Wray of Seagull sloop 1796. Commander 1795-1817 Henry Wray Nat Arch ADM 9/4/888 . See Ideson, Luke

Wright 8.4.1796 adv at King's / 2.12.1807 call on Wright / 4.12.1807 again / 6.9.1808 again (in Newbury)  / 7.11.1808 Wright cpp calls / dine at Collier's w. Wright / 8.8.1812 tea Collier's, w. Wright



I suspect five different Wrights in the above entries. For 1796 at King's I have no suggestions. For the two entries two days apart in 1807 I considered Henry Wright attorney of Paper-bldgs Temple partner to Thomas Nelson Pickering, because a Pickering also appeared in the list of calls on 3.12.1807, 4.12.1807 and 5.12.1807. However on 4.12.1807 they both appeared but…

Wright 16.7.1800 calls, adv at Lefanu's

Perhaps Thomas Wright Dict Irish Biog 1760-1812 surgeon, United Irishman, informer from 1799. Dublin Trades 1797 Benjamin Wright grocer, James Wright victualler, Joseph Wright grocer, Joseph Wright hatter, Nehemiah Wright linen draper, Patrick Wright factor

19.4.1810 call on Curran; adv. dr Wright

Perhaps Thomas Wright 1760?-1812 Dict Irish Biog a surgeon who was part of the United Irishmen but after his arrest informed on them and later served as Temporary Physician to the British forces in the fever stricken Walcheren expedition of 1809. His book The History of the Walcheren Remittent was published in 1811 (Morning Post 26.6.1811) and he died of yellow fever in October 1812 in Spain. He was a licentiate of the Irish College of Physicians, the only Dr Wright in the Royal College in 1811 was Warner Wright of Norwich

John Wright of Milk Street proposed Society for Constitutional Information 27.4.1792 by Michael Pearson 2nded John Horne Tooke (elected but deceased)

John Wright born 12.2.1762 died 12.5.1792 buried 15.5.1792 St Lawrence Jewry. Lowndes directory 1787 John Wright wholesale hosier Milk St, 1788-191 William & Samuel Wright wholesale hosiers 20 Milk St, Kent's directory 1791 John Wright warehouseman 22 Milk St. His father Thomas Wright along with William Wright, manufacturers of hose, Derby, Bailey's 1784. According to an Ancestry user-submitted tree his father was Thomas Wright…

Rev Wright of Ipswich proposed Society for Constitutional Information 27.4.1787 by Thomas Brand Hollis 2nded John Baynes

Rev John Wright, Ipswich subscribed 1796 to Habakkuk Crabb (DNB 1750-1794). Not found in Surman Index or Oakes Diaries, no newspaper mentions found. John Wright = Sudbury, Suffolk 22.11.1763 Mary Key. Her will dated 31.12.1784 Mary wife of Rev John Wright of Ipswich mentioned indenture of 14.3.1770 father John Key, cousin John Eaton eldest son of late cousin Elizabeth Eaton who was dau of aunt Mary Snell, cousin Thomas Smith son of Daniel & Susan Smaith…

see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

6 Poland St ratebooks 1780-9 Mrs Wright (poor). The note poor may imply she was let off paying the rates. This does not necessarily mean she was living in greater poverty than some of her neighbouring householders.  Others marked as poor in the ratebooks were Joseph Bennett at 20 Poland St and John Heslop at 25 Poland St. The name Wright was very common but two burials around the time her tenancy ended were Elizabeth Wright adult bur St Martin in the Fields 21.3.1789, Sarah Wright adult bur 3.9.1789 St James…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

William Wright 23 Poland St (Kings Arms) ratebooks 1785-6 / a very common name, three William Wright  victuallers voted 1784 Westminster, Shug Lane St James voted Hood & Wray, Haymarket voted Fox (and SunFire 1779 there), Oxendon St, St Martin i t Fields voted Fox, also in 1780 wine merchant Tothill St voted Fox, in 1790 victualler Peter St, St Margaret & St John voted Fox, in 1818 Audley St St Geo Han Sq voted Burdett & Kinnaird. In SunFire 1777 victualler Billericay, Essex, 1777 wine merchant Barnaby St, 1777…

30.11.1793 sup at, Wrights (with 13 others) / 17.12.1794 evening at Merry's, Wrights

no Wright appears in the diary till 1796, and such a large company with several well known actors/singers (Hewardine, Pope, Dignum, Johnstone) suggests a public venue, as does the plural form without apostrophe. There was a Wright's coffee house in York Street Covent Garden in the 1760s frequented by actors, and a Wright's coffee house in Soho Square from 1796 (Law List), a Francis Johnson Wright brandy merchant of the Strand (who voted Tooke 1790) and a David Wright brandy merchant Bridges St…

HCR diary 14.11.1827 dined "at Aders - Dr Wurm and Dr Hensler were there and also Mr & Mrs Masquerier" "Dr Wurm an anti-Goethe-ist to a degree that tried Aders and my good nature"

Marquardt II p 113 n 318 Christian Friedrich Wurm 1803-1859 and see de.wikipedia. He was in England between 1825 and 1827

George Wyatt of Eastwood, nr Rochford, Essex proposed Society for Constitutional Information 23.11.1792 by John Towill Rutt 2nded John Horne Tooke

According to an Ancestry user-submitted tree George Wyatt was born at Beckney, Essex 17.9.1757 and married Mary Bell in 1779

30.12.1795 Wybournes at Newton's / 14.1.1796 Wybourne adv at Newton's

William Winnall of Stourbridge attorney 1764 took appr John Wybaurn 5yrs premium £50 / James W attorney 1787-93 Craigs Court / John Wybourn attorney 1, Craig's Court, Charing X 1794 / voted Hood 1790 Fox 1796 / freemason (& Thos W)1799 / mrs W wife of solicitor Craigs Court died 25.2.1811 / Miss S Wybourn of Craigs Court = C Adams Esq of East India House 16.2.1815 St Martins / Leeds Mercury 16.9.1815 Mr Wybourn 5gns to support Daniel Lovel, Liberty of the Press / 5.12.1819 Mr W of Craigs Court…

L Wycombe 20.3.1794 talked of at J Hollis' / 9.1.1802 L Wycombe at Curran's / 13.1.1802 dine at Wycombe's (with Curran &c) / 20.1.1802 call on Wycombe (not in)

Lord Wycombe was John Henry Petty 1765-1809 Hist of Parl, eldest son of Lord Shelburne and MP for Chipping Wycombe 1786-1802, succeeded his father 1805



 

see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset

Francis Wylde 15 Poland St ratebooks 1780-1782 / 1779 Francis Wylde mantua maker St James took appr Dorothy Ingry / SunFire 1780 Francis Wilde gent Poland St / Francis Wild gent Poland St voted Fox 1784 / will PCC 1792 Francis Wild of Bishopsgate, Surrey